Company law and corporate governance 2600-MSFRdz2rkdiPSLK
1. Commercial law companies:
a) Personal partnership:
• general partnership,
• limited liability partnership,
• limited partnership,
b) Capital companies:
• limited liability company,
• joint stock company.
2. The concept of corporate governance and its theoretical and practical solutions.
3. 3. Separation of ownership and control as a feature of modern corporations.
4. 4. Conditions for the functioning of modern corporations.
5. 5. Theories of corporate governance and their practical implications. Theories: resource, stakeholder, agency, steward, institutional, managerial hegemony, property rights, transaction costs, integrating.
6. 6. The main problems of corporate governance:
a) agency problem,
b) the problem of identifying stakeholders and their branches on the company,
c) separation of legal and economic ownership.
7. External and internal corporate mechanisms. External and internal corporate mechanisms as instruments of shaping corporate governance and limiting the problems of its functioning.
8. Codes of good corporate governance practices in Poland and other countries. International corporate governance standards.
9. Models of corporate governance: Anglo-Saxon, German, Japanese, Latin.
10. Polish model of corporate governance.
11. Contemporary practical problems of corporate governance
Type of course
Mode
Assessment criteria
Test online
Bibliography
Presentation and literature distributed by the lecturer during classes.
Kodeks cywilny (Civil Code), Kodeks spółek handlowych (Commercial Companies Code), Konstytucja RP (Constitution of the Republic of Poland), Prawo przedsiębiorców (Entrepreneurs Law)
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